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116 Ala. 481

Reeves v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided November 15, 1897

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1897-11-15

Tried before the Hon. E. B. Wilkerson. The prosecution in this case was commenced by a complaint being made before a justice of the peace of Pike county, charging the appellant, Mary Reeyes, with living in adultery with one Henry Myhan.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently May 1910

1 state decisions

Relies on Aaron v. State · Edmundson v. State · Gresham v. Walker

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Decided 1897-11-15

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McCLELLAN, J.

¶1The warrant of. arrest issued by a justice of the peace was properly made returnable to the criminal court of Pike county.— Walker v. State, 89 Ala. 74.

¶2The names Patison and Patterson are, it would seem, idem sonans. — 16 Am. & Eng. Encyc. of Law, p. 122, note, p. 124; Taylor v. Rogers, 1 Ala. 197; Jackson v. Cody, 9 Cow. (N. Y.) 140; Petrie v. Woodworth, 3 Caine, (N.Y.), 219; Page v. State, 61 Ala. 16; Aaron v. State, 37 Ala. 106; Edmundson v. State, 17 Ala. 179; Gresham v. Walker, 10 Ala. 370. But whether so or not, it is manifest from the complaint in this case that the Hattie Patterson, who verified and subscribed it, was identical with the Hattie Patison who appeared before the officer and made it, and that the difference in the spelling of the name resulted from a mere clerical mistake of the person who wrote it.

¶3There is no error in the. record, and the judgment must be affirmed.

¶4Affirmed.

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